essek (thelyss) widogast is problemagic ✨ (shadowhand) wrote in valloic,
The path that we walk in our own lives feels linear, but there are many paths that you could have taken that fall to the wayside or are discarded. They could be as mundane as having chosen to have cereal rather than eggs for breakfast or more substantial, such as a path wherein you chose not to take the job at Geliara. It is from those discarded timelines that it pulls from.
Though, there are other spells that are a bit more straightforward, stopping time entirely for someone, at least for a short while, or freezing a spell as it is being cast, so it can be released at a later time. Some more powerful wizards in the Chronurgy field can even see through time, though it is taxing for them to do so.